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CARMINA BURANA

Composed by Carl Orff

Directed by

OCTOBER 23 at 7:30 pm

Ellie Caulkins Opera House

Denver Center for the Performing Arts (14th and Curtis, Denver)

GENERAL ADMISSION - $50.00 all tickets

A Collaborative performance featuring full orchestra, chorus, soloists, and dance by students of Denver School of the Arts, Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Washington, D.C., and Orange County (Santa Ana, California) School of the Arts. 

CARMINA BURANA was written in 1935 by Carl Orff based on 24 of the poems from a medieval collection by the same name.  The poems cover a wide range of topics from the fickleness of fortune and wealth, the fleeting nature of life, the joy of the return of Spring, and the pleasures and perils of drinking, gluttony, gambling and lust which was a prevalent in the 12th century as it is today.  The Wheel of Fortune turns making joy become bitterness and hope dissolve to grief.  Written as a staged work involving dance, choreography, and visual design as well as the music, this production promises visual surprises and musical magic.

A once-in-a-lifetime performance - not to be missed!!